New features, improvements, and fixes — shipped release by release, from the first deploy to today.
Static sites are a first-class service type — and anything can sleep when idle now, whether or not it has a public URL.
Point a service at a Vite, Astro, or Docusaurus app — or a plain folder of HTML — and Hostess builds it and serves it from a proper file server. SPA routing, redirects, custom headers, a 404 page, and compression all come with it, and the site sleeps when nobody is visiting.
A private service can now scale to zero too. Keep an API off the internet, let it idle at nothing, and it wakes the moment another service calls it through ${api.url} — so a private backend behind a public frontend costs nothing while both are quiet.
Set replicas once per environment instead of once per service. Let preview apps idle between reviews while production holds a steady instance count, from the same hostess.yml.
Builds now run on a hosted build fleet with a warm, persistent cache instead of waiting on capacity in your region. Repeat deploys reuse far more of the previous build.
Apps that nobody is using scale all the way down to zero — plus real-visitor analytics, performance scores, and job logs you can go back to.
Side projects, demos, and preview apps stop taking up capacity while nobody is looking at them. Set a service’s minimum instance count to zero and it winds down after about five minutes of quiet, then wakes on the next visit in a few seconds — whether that visit comes from its Hostess URL, a custom domain, a preview link, or another service calling it.
Visitors, page views, bounce rate, and breakdowns by page, referrer, campaign, country, and device — in their own dashboard tab. Add the <Analytics /> component to your app and the numbers start filling in. No cookies, so no cookie banner.
Real-user Core Web Vitals from actual page loads, not a lab test — LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, and TTFB by route, device, and percentile, distilled into a single Real Experience Score you can watch move release over release.
Job output is kept after the run ends, so you can reopen any past run and read exactly what happened. Watch one live with hostess jobs run --follow, or pick a specific firing of a repeating job from the dashboard’s log viewer.
Reach your databases from anywhere, and share services with your team — no VPN required.
Postgres and Redis now expose standard connection strings over TLS on their own dedicated hostnames. Connect from your laptop, a CI job, or another platform — no port-forwarding required.
Set a service to “team” and your whole org can reach it after signing in once with Hostess SSO. No VPN, no shared passwords — and you can set visibility per port on multi-port services.
Connection pooling, a built-in SQL console, query insights, declarative extensions, and point-in-time restore back to any moment you choose.
Per-database users for scoped databases, plus configurable version, memory limit, and eviction policy — all from your config.
From a deploy engine to a production platform: Git-driven deploys, custom domains, and insights.
Connect a repository and Hostess builds and deploys on every push. Every pull request gets its own preview URL that tears itself down when the PR closes.
Bring your own domain with automatic TLS. Add it, verify it, and you’re live — certificates are provisioned and renewed for you.
Built-in metrics and distributed-trace waterfalls for your services, plus an interactive FastAPI playground to exercise your API right from the dashboard.
Source builds with streamed, real-time logs so you can watch every step of a deploy as it happens.
The first release — deploy and run your entire stack from a single file.
Next.js, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, or any container image. Hostess provisions, routes, scales, and wires everything together automatically from one config file.
Production databases in a single line of config, with automatic backups and restore. Reference them by name and connection strings resolve for you at deploy time.
Every service gets a stable URL. Reference another service and its credentials and URLs are injected automatically — no env-file juggling.
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